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This proposal allows people with valid out-of-state driver's licenses, such as college students or recent arrivals to Austin, to apply for a conditional chauffeur's permit allowing them to provide rides for hire.

The measure provides an avenue for RideAustin, a nonprofit ride-hailing company that wants to keep fingerprint-based background checks for its drivers, to use the screening system the city requires for chauffeurs (state law now prohibits cities from regulating ride-hailing companies or requiring them to do certain screenings). But the proposal faced opposition from cab companies who say they've already lost considerable business to ride-hailing drivers and don't need more to enter the market.

This revision to the city's campaign finance ordinance allows City Council candidates to raise money only during the 12 months leading up to election day. A judge in 2016 struck down the city's previous limit allowing campaign fundraising only during the six months before election day.

This item is a resolution that would publicly condemn the display of monuments and memorials to the Confederacy. It also directs the city manager's office to prepare a report identifying all of the Confederate monuments and memorials in the city limits and provide options addressing their possible removal. Those could include storing the monuments and maintenance for educational purposes.

The resolution comes as many cities across the U.S., including Dallas, New Orleans and Charlottesville, Va., have removed monuments to Confederate officials. After the attack in Charlottesville, an effort began to rename Robert E. Lee Road in South Austin.

This resolution renames Columbus Day in Austin to Indigenous Peoples Day. Columbus Day, which is celebrated on the second Monday in October, has come to many to be viewed as a holiday celebrating the oppression and genocide of Native Americans after the arrival of European settlers.

This resolution would amend the city of Austin's federal legislative priorities to include prioritizing immigration and border policies. The resolution is in reaction to President Donald Trump's executive order authorizing the construction of a border wall along portions of the Mexican border and Trump's refusal to renew the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It directs Austin's lobbyists to argue in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, the renewal of DACA and against the border wall.